Using Robot Framework for ATDD

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I would like to hear other people's experience with using Robot Framework for automated acceptance testing.

What are its major strengths and weaknesses as well as any comparison with other frameworks (mainly Fitness and Selenium)?

The code that will be tested is real-time, legacy code, mainly in C++.

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